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Lester_the_NightFly said:
For all the nasty things he said and did, the haters will come out. What goes around comes around.
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Social media has been filled with them all day. Some people on Twitter telling him to "rest in pi$$". I get they hated Limbaugh and the Trump crowd. If you don't have anything nice to say...don't say anything at all. Personally, I don't align with a lot of his opinions, but I'm still respecting that we lost a massive voice in radio and one of the voices that gave AM radio another chance.
Not to say the same thing happened when Justice Ginsberg died either, with some on the right. No matter who you align with, when expressing death, leave the partisanship opinions to another time.
 
Lost my first (full-time, anyway) midday air shift to Rush. Well, kinda sorta. I had left that station, and they added him to their lineup about a year later. It was my understanding that when Larry King moved his late-night radio talk show to late afternoons, the station got angry calls from listeners about King's left-wing views. When I had first started at that station about a year earlier, I had board-oped King, so I knew about his leftist views, but it was his show, and he could say what he wanted. Apparently not very many listeners to this station had heard KIng when he was on late nights. AM listeners had gone to bed, and FM listeners probably just flipped the dial in search of some music. Evidently, these callers told them that if they were going to carry King, they should counter him with Limbaugh, which was apparently what they did. So they may have, in effect, turned them into a talk station. They gradually carried more talk programming, and are still talk to this day.
 
crainbebo said:
Social media has been filled with them all day. Some people on Twitter telling him to "rest in pi$$". I get they hated Limbaugh and the Trump crowd. If you don't have anything nice to say...don't say anything at all. Personally, I don't align with a lot of his opinions, but I'm still respecting that we lost a massive voice in radio and one of the voices that gave AM radio another chance.
Not to say the same thing happened when Justice Ginsberg died either, with some on the right. No matter who you align with, when expressing death, leave the partisanship opinions to another time.
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I'm not sure most people posting unkind comments had 'hatred' for Rush and the right (many are just armchair quarterbacks, anonymously commenting). One must admit that Rush had some pretty unkind and in many cases unfair or even untruthful things to say about people over the decades, both the living and the deceased. I think some are having a difficult time completely looking past all that, and feel they're now expected to somehow only post messages of positivity since he himself has passed and they're struggling with that.

My personal feeling is that, looking past the realities laid out in my first paragraph, one obviously can't take away from Rush's popularity and the "shot in the arm" he gave to a declining medium. I first heard him back in about 1990 when his show was still building and he was still known for his song parodies and jingles and one could tell there was something unique (and truly "listenable") about his program. The fact that he failed multiple times as a radio DJ and yet somehow parlayed that into the show, career and ultimately the sheer number of stations and nationwide audience he held for years cannot be overstated. He himself admitted that there was a lot of 'shtick" involved in what he did, but he most definitely had a loyal audience who hung on his every word. Few in radio broadcasting can claim such a long career and the size of audience Limbaugh held for that many years. The fact that there's been such a long running discussion on this very site about who could possibly replace him and how, says a lot about his popularity and the "relationship" he had with his loyal followers. RIP.
 
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This individual laughed at and made comedy of the deaths of people with HIV/AIDS. May he have the peace and dignity in death that he denied to so many others.
 
Did you know he was actually on SW heard around the world on WRNO (15420) out of New Orleans.
I think much of his presentation was testosterone driven.
 
I'm not a conservative but there's no one I'd rather listen to talking about conservative views. I just listen if I happen to be in the car and there's nothing else I really want to hear, because there's not a lot worth hearing on actual radio stations these days in my opinion. Up until about four years ago, he could make ideas I was opposed to sound logical. But even in recent years, many of the things he said this country needed it probably does, and when he said these things, he didn't sound hateful or anything like a wacko. And even when his ideas didn't make sense, I just enjoyed listening to his presentation and his interactions with callers who agreed. I can't recall being around for any callers who disagreed with him in recent years.
 
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Rush Limbaugh Laid To Rest In Historic St. Louis Cemetery.

Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh was buried last Wednesday at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis during a private ceremony with close family and friends. Additional celebrations of life
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Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh was buried last Wednesday (Feb. 24) at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis during a private ceremony with close family and friends. The historic cemetery is the final resting place for many famous Missourians, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Limbaugh, who died Feb. 17 from stage 4 lung cancer, will be recognized with additional celebrations of his life, including one in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, MO, according to the Southeast Missourian.

At CPAC in Florida over the weekend, former President Donald Trump paid tribute to Limbaugh during his address at the gathering.
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Tired Of It All said:
What have we become when we have to post things such as the above.
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To be fair, I can see that type of message being posted by the moderators of this site following the passing of a number of well-known people who happened to be divisive in life and who conjured up strong feelings and opinions from both those who agreed and disagreed with them. Moreso when they were involved politics.

I can also recall just a few weeks ago when Frank as moderator chose to pull a several posts from a particular "in memoriam" discussion for someone who was actually not well known. In that case, the discussion was going off topic, with comments about the confusing way the obit was worded, rather than paying tribute to the deceased. Its one of the reasons this site has moderators, I guess.
 
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firepoint525 said:
Lost my first (full-time, anyway) midday air shift to Rush. Well, kinda sorta. I had left that station, and they added him to their lineup about a year later. It was my understanding that when Larry King moved his late-night radio talk show to late afternoons, the station got angry calls from listeners about King's left-wing views. When I had first started at that station about a year earlier, I had board-oped King, so I knew about his leftist views, but it was his show, and he could say what he wanted. Apparently not very many listeners to this station had heard KIng when he was on late nights. AM listeners had gone to bed, and FM listeners probably just flipped the dial in search of some music. Evidently, these callers told them that if they were going to carry King, they should counter him with Limbaugh, which was apparently what they did. So they may have, in effect, turned them into a talk station. They gradually carried more talk programming, and are still talk to this day.
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Aw, more intolerance of talk radio's core listeners. They whine so much about "the left" and "own the libs..." yet they themselves do what they accuse their opponents of doing. This coming from a former longtime Rush listener who regularly listened to him from the day of his first nationally syndicated show up until the mid-late 90s.

Larry King wasn't that "leftist..." He wasn't in your face about it, and wasn't shy to express his opinions, when they fit, but the show wasn't about King and his views, like Limbo's.

Apparently not very many listeners to this station had heard KIng when he was on late nights. AM listeners had gone to bed, and FM listeners probably just flipped the dial in search of some music. Evidently, these callers told them that if they were going to carry King, they should counter him with Limbaugh, which was apparently what they did. So they may have, in effect, turned them into a talk station. They gradually carried more talk programming, and are still talk to this day.
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I was a longtime Larry King listener who also listened to Rush.

There was no "competition" between them. They were different animals.
 
Dondd said:
Aw, more intolerance of talk radio's core listeners. They whine so much about "the left" and "own the libs..." yet they themselves do what they accuse their opponents of doing. This coming from a former longtime Rush listener who regularly listened to him from the day of his first nationally syndicated show up until the mid-late 90s.

Larry King wasn't that "leftist..." He wasn't in your face about it, and wasn't shy to express his opinions, when they fit, but the show wasn't about King and his views, like Limbo's.



I was a longtime Larry King listener who also listened to Rush.

There was no "competition" between them. They were different animals.
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King mostly interviewed guests, who could political, in entertainment, authors etc with open phone segments. There were no long monologues. Jim Bohannon still does the same thing. I don't hear him regularly but several years ago I was on a brief trip and Bohannon's guest was Darrell Waltrip, NASCAR driver and broadcaster. Wish he was on more stations. It'd be a noce break from Levin screaming in a high-pitched voice that "Donald Trump is as pure as for the driven snow and what we need is absolute one-party rule for the Republicans!"

Speaking of left and right, I'm beyond tired of the idea that my binary choice of absolute worship of Trump and being a radical leftist socialist Marxist Communist.
 
gr8oldies said:
I'm beyond tired of the idea that my binary choice of absolute worship of Trump and being a radical leftist socialist Marxist Communist.
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Me too.
I recently watched a video of the late great Michael Jackson's KABC radio show, in 1988, the day after the presidential election.

The Michael Jackson Radio Show

What a refreshing change.
Talk radio like it use to be... A host who didn't shout or scream at people or insult or cut-off callers who disagreed.
The variety of calls the host got- from left to right -- and the callers were classy and respectful, as the host noted.
 
This thread was meant to be an "In Memorium" to Rush Limbaugh following his passing, not a discussion thread about Larry King, Michael Jackson and others. Plenty of other threads on this site to talk about those guys.

In less than 1 month it'll be 1 full year since Limbaugh died. Let's let him rest.

@frankberry @DavidEduardo it may be time to lock this one down.
 
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Dondd said:
Me too.
I recently watched a video of the late great Michael Jackson's KABC radio show, in 1988, the day after the presidential election.

The Michael Jackson Radio Show

What a refreshing change.
Talk radio like it use to be... A host who didn't shout or scream at people or insult or cut-off callers who disagreed.
The variety of calls the host got- from left to right -- and the callers were classy and respectful, as the host noted.
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Here's an idea, listen to who you like not who you don't like. Works for me.
 
Mikey Radio said:
This thread was meant to be an "In Memorium" to Rush Limbaugh following his passing, not a discussion thread about Larry King, Michael Jackson and others. Plenty of other threads on this site to talk about those guys.

In less than 1 month it'll be 1 full year since Limbaugh died. Let's let him rest.

@frankberry @DavidEduardo it may be time to lock this one down.
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agree, it was bump with no new info, i recently bumped the Russ Martin thread in the "IN MEMORIAM" section as the show he hosted was rebranded (this was a few weeks before the scandal involving a member of the show came to light).

i think it's time to "Shut her down".
 
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